So today, Mosul fell. Mosul is the second largest city in Iraq. The Iraqi government we "installed", has now lost Fallujah, Ramadi, Mosul and other large swaths of the country we invaded at the cost of thousands of American lives, tens of thousands of Iraqi lives and a couple trillion dollars. (What could your school district do with a trillion dollars?). One more maddening day in this 11-year illegal, immoral, greedy and stupid war. Today in Mosul, that Iraqi Army YOU pay for, freaked out, threw down their guns, and literally RAN away. I have friends and acquaintances who lost sons in all three of those cities. I can only imagine what they're feeling tonight. FOR WHAT? FOR WHAT! I am so sorry we couldn't do anything to stop this when it started. A few million of us tried. Last week, Richard Clarke, Bush's former head of counter-terrorism, said he now believes that his fellow members of the Bush administration committed "war crimes." I continue to await the perp walk.

I think they KNEW it would fail but they could shovel billions to their Military - Industrialists and contractor friends like at Halliburton; Kellog, Root & Borwn… and many others. It was all about funding those that fund them !!

We wasted Trillions of $ and 10,000s of lives… I hope they have a reserved room in Hell for it !!

Back in 2010 Biden was bragging about us pulling out and leaving a stable government. Oops. The conservative media is all over it.

Granted we should have never been there, but the current administration was a bit optimistic and tried to use the pullout as political capital.

One could argue that when we did pull out, the government *was* relatively stable -- everything Biden said in that article was basically true at the time. But for better or worse, the Iraqis have been masters of their own destiny since. Milaki could have tried to be more inclusive in his government and the military, but he chose instead to perpetuate the existing divisions, and so now he has a military that would rather drop trou than risk their lives for his government. At some point the US was going to have to let the Iraqis succeed or fail on their own -- I'm not sure staying would have accomplished anything except delaying the inevitable ...

Easy for conservative media to bash Obama on this, but I haven't heard what their solution would have been that doesn't effectively involve an occupation in perpetuity. It's not like we didn't know going in that getting out wasn't going to be pretty or even "successful"... Same goes for Afghanistan -- I don't see that country doing well at all after we're finally gone, and I don't see how staying longer would change that outcome.

I can't believe McLame and Linseed Graham… WTF they want, besides another war? Sure we could do air strikes… but I think it'd only delay the inevitable. The big ? is WTF dod we do if Iran jumps in full force ?? I'm sure they're undermining things now….

GW -Cheney-Rummy and Wolfman are to blame for this cluster Fk… they couldn't leave well enough alone. … and most of the American people went along !!

I like Matthews point on Hardball last night… Germany, Italy, and Japan did not fall back into their old ways after WWII because the PEOPLE wouldn't allow it. Not the same with Iraq and Afghanistan… this is what the people are used to… it's not going to change !! any moron could tell you that 11 years ago, well except for several in the Bush Admin including El Presidente !

So today, Mosul fell. Mosul is the second largest city in Iraq. The Iraqi government we "installed", has now lost Fallujah, Ramadi, Mosul and other large swaths of the country we invaded at the cost of thousands of American lives, tens of thousands of Iraqi lives and a couple trillion dollars. (What could your school district do with a trillion dollars?). One more maddening day in this 11-year illegal, immoral, greedy and stupid war. Today in Mosul, that Iraqi Army YOU pay for, freaked out, threw down their guns, and literally RAN away. I have friends and acquaintances who lost sons in all three of those cities. I can only imagine what they're feeling tonight. FOR WHAT? FOR WHAT! I am so sorry we couldn't do anything to stop this when it started. A few million of us tried. Last week, Richard Clarke, Bush's former head of counter-terrorism, said he now believes that his fellow members of the Bush administration committed "war crimes." I continue to await the perp walk.

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